tool
/tu:l/
The verdict
“tool” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,542) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,542
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 917
- “T” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ferramenta
Corpus desk
Index PT-tool · tool · Portuguese
tool · rank #29,542 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,542
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 917
- PHOTO-FINISH telefonar
Nearest frequency peer: telefonar (-5 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “tool”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- squash
squash
70,472 corpus weight
- suavidade
suavidade
70,469 corpus weight
- tabagismo
tabagismo
70,467 corpus weight
- telefonar
telefonar
70,464 corpus weight
- tool
tool
70,459 corpus weight
- und
und
70,450 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “tool” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tool |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tu:l/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “tool”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tool is neighbouring look-alikes ("two", "Tor", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tu:l/. Frequency #29,542 among 917 “T” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for tool, with forms such as "otol", "tol", and "tooll". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "two", "Tor", "topo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is tool, spelled T-O-O-L.
Definition
- 1ferramenta
- 2idiota
- 3pênis
- 4uma pessoa que é usado num relacionamento por razões outras que não o amor
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tool appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was a tool, no more than a pawn to her.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- otol
- tol
- tooll
- ttool
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tool - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).